This dataset was scraped from nextspaceflight.com and includes all the space missions since the beginning of Space Race between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1957!

Installing Package with Country Codes

Upgrading Plotly

Importing Libraries

Notebook Presentation Format

Loading the Dataset

Preliminary Data Exploration

Data Cleaning

As we can see, we cannot drop NaN values here, since the price is missing in about 75% of the rows, so we will deal with that once we start exploring the price column.

Descriptive Statistics

Number of Launches per Company

Number of Active versus Retired Rockets

Distribution of Mission Status

Checking how many missions were sucessfull and how many failed.

How Expensive are the Launches?

The price column is given in USD millions (we need to take care of NaN's here).

Number of Launches by Country

Had to work the country names so I could get a consistent naming structure to chart it. (Used the iso31666 package)

Number of Failures by Country

Countries, organisations, and mission status.

Total Amount of Money Spent on Space Missions

Without NaN values

Amount of Money Spent by Organisation

Number of Launches per Year

Number of Launches Month-on-Month until the Present

Which months are most popular and least popular for launches?

How has the Launch Price varied Over Time?

Number of Launches over Time by the Top 10 Organisations.

Cold War Space Race: USA vs USSR

The cold war lasted from the start of the dataset up until 1991.

Total number of launches of the USSR and the USA

Included Kazakhstan since at the time of the cold war it was part of USSR

Total Number of Launches Year-On-Year by the Two Superpowers

Total Number of Mission Failures Year on Year.

Percentage of Failures

Lead country in terms of total number of launches for every year

Organisation Doing the Most Number of Launches per year